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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Who wants to get it started?
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1. Need for rich media and interactivity support. EPUB 2.0.1 has an extension mechanism, with provision for fallbacks, but does not intrinsically standardize support for rich media (such as video) and interactivity (programmatic content, such as would be needed to implement a quiz or crossword puzzle). These capabilities are necessary for interactive digital textbooks and digital magazines, and more generally to enable eBooks to evolve into a new medium, rather than simply be digital equivalents of paper books.
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Ah, the neverending rush to glitz. The ePub standard needs to get plain text books right first before moving on to stuff like rich media. There's still so many things that need to be fixed with respect to basic typography in the ePub standard; I can't even imagine how screwed up this format will get if they start slap-dashing things like embedded video, etc., into the standard. Jeez, I don't want to read a web page, I want to read a book.